Mind Your P's & Q's

The Letter P is fun to be

And that's a fact, for so you see

So many things start with P

So let's explore them, you and me...

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Pistachios start with P

Pretzels, Peaches, yessiree

Pumpkin cookies for Halloween

Icing them is such a dream!

Pomegranate pop

Pizza, Pineapples

Paper bag puppets give you a smile.

Pumpkin Pie is Heavenly

Especially with cold whipped cream!

Pickles can definitely hit the spot,

But so can Pringles, give the lid a pop!

Pumpernickle pepperjack cheese sandwiches delight

But paper plate apples, I'm not sure that's right?

Potatoes with cheese, bacon bits, and the works

But Peanut Butter sandwiches make Tyler bezerk.

Fruit salad made of pineapple, pears, pomegranate, and plums

Pepperoni, pastrami, and prosciutto Paninis - give me some!

And, of course, painting pumpkins - who could pass up that mess?

All I can say is I think P Week was a fabulous success!

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Q week, however, wasn't as grand.
Q week was very very poorly planned.

We had quesadillas
Made out of cheese and tortillas

Quiche

And Quaker oats

Then colored pictures of Q - not to boast.

Anyway, I hope my rhyming made you laugh
I read Dr. Suess today before Tyler's nap...

Halloween In More Than One Day

Halloween seems to be one of those holidays that comes and goes with little to no preparation and very little anticipation. Last year Tyler didn't "get" the whole Halloween thing, so basically the day came, we shoved him in is costume (with him crying the whole time) and then went trick-or-treating for a little while and it was over.

This year, however...

Halloween lasted a lot longer than a few hours. It started out with decorating our house. We put up cobwebs and spiders and window clings and bats and ghosts and pumpkins.

Then, we bought a costume after *careful* consideration. That means for weeks we asked Tyler "do you want to be a __________ for Halloween?" to which the answer every time was No thank you. Finally I sat him down in front of the computer on a Halloween website with upwards of 250 different toddler sized costumes and we went through picture by picture. Want to be that? No. Want to be that? No. Finally he settled on this:
A Knight!! People kept mistaking him for a king, to which he would reply "NO...I'm just a knight!"

Then came Halloween Mommy & Me at Rockville Town Square. Despite past Mommy & Me events where the first thing we HAD to do was stand in the Balloon Animal line, he wanted nothing to do with it this time. All he wanted was to be able to hold his Pumpkin bucket and go trick-or-treating from store to store.

His bucket got pretty heavy.

We also made Pumpkin cookies (to be shown in detail during P Week festivities) and decorated them. I made a mental note to remember that the sugar cookie recipe did not make nearly enough cookies.

We went picking pumpkins at Phillip's Farm. It's a nice little farm by my inlaws house that is actually closing down permanently as of October 31st. The lady that runs it is battling cancer for the second time. It's sad. We saw WTOP at the farm when we went interviewing the owner.

We also went to Trunk or Treat. We ended up going to my parents ward so Tyler could be with his cousins. They had a spook alley set up by the young women, and then trunk or treat in the parking lot. Besides the person giving out brownies, it was a success.

On Halloween day we went to a spook dinner at my inlaws, put on by my sister in law. You got a menu with items like eye of newt, or witches hearts, or casket wrap, and you ordered them in three courses. You didn't know what you were getting and my fork ended up coming in course 2 instead of course 1. I had to eat ice cream by licking it off my plate. It was a lot of fun.

Then we carved pumpkins. Tyler picked out a funny fat one that leaned back.

He wouldn't touch the guts.

But Daddy would...

When it was all cleaned off and it came time to actually carve it, Tyler wanted to draw his own face on with the marker. So I let him draw away and then I carved it with a knife. This is what he ended up with:

He was a very proud boy with a very cute pumpkin.

Lastly, we went back to our neighorhood to go trick-or-treating. Because it was raining at first, and because I anticipated carrying a boy or a bucket at some point, I didn't get any pictures. We stayed out for two and a half hours and Tyler walked by himself for two hours and 15 minutes of that. I was very proud of him. Daddy stayed home to pass out candy. All our candy ran out, but this is what we ended up with after Tyler's long escapade through the neighborhood:

It was a fun holiday and we will be eating candy for months.